reform to introduce an appropriate competition mechanism has had a positive effect on the efficiency and stability of Chinese … last ten years and investigate how market power affects bank efficiency and stability. Design/methodology/approach -The … the relationship between market power and bank efficiency, stability in the last ten years. Findings– The results show …

illustrated the prominent position which the goal of promoting financial stability has assumed over that of the prevention or … limitation of possible distortions of competition which may arise when granting State aid. The recent Financial Crisis has also … attempts to highlight how far central banks and governments should intervene and how far distortions of competition should be …

the need for deregulation over the past two decades has been the objective and desire to foster competition. Re-regulation …Recent years have witnessed a change in focus from considerations of factors which could impede competition, for … example over-regulation, to the need to strike a balance between over-regulation and insufficient regulation – in order to …

industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of service (though it does not attempt to benchmark private hospitals …

technical efficiency is a significant deterrence to foreign competition. …Recent cross-country comparisons of bank efficiency have been based on pooled estimates of banks across countries and … efficiency of banks in each country that operate both within and outside their own environments. The results indicate that …

This paper explores the empirical effects of competition on technical efficiency in the context of electricity industry … were for the most part unaffected by restructuring, experienced the smallest efficiency gains over the past decade …

efficiency, taking into account the regulatory changes that have affected the European airline industry. We construct and …